Events in Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Workshop

26th June

12:00 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

A Grand Day Out

Aardman model animation workshop, all materials provided.

Jim Parkyn of Aardman Animations (creators of Wallace and Gromit) stages three fascinating workshops for youngsters.

Suitable for 7 years and up

Workshop

26th June

2:00 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

A Grand Day Out

Aardman model animation workshop, all materials provided.

Jim Parkyn of Aardman Animations (creators of Wallace and Gromit) stages three fascinating workshops for youngsters.

Suitable for 7 years and up

Workshop

26th June

4:00 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

A Grand Day Out

Aardman model animation workshop, all materials provided.

Jim Parkyn of Aardman Animations (creators of Wallace and Gromit) stages three fascinating workshops for youngsters.

Suitable for 7 years and up

Poetry

27th June

3:00 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Patrick Jones

A Poet of Our Time

Patrick Jones is a thought – provoking poet, playwright, human rights activist and filmmaker.

Poetry

27th June

3:00 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

27th June

5:00 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

27th June

7:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Poetry Cornered

Three of the UK's finest poets bring their work to Ludlow - all on one day

Book a "Season Ticket" to our three poetry events at a reduced cost.

Poetry

27th June

5:00 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Frieda Hughes

The Book of Mirrors

Poet, children’s author and artist, Frieda Hughes has exhibited her paintings at major galleries in the UK and Australia and written much – acclaimed children’s books.

Poetry

27th June

7:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Carol Ann Duffy

An audience with the Poet Laureate

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow.  She grew up in Stafford and then attended the University of Liverpool where she studied philosophy.

Poetry

28th June

7:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

The World's Wife

Adapted from the poems of Carol Ann Duffy, performed by Linda Marlowe

A new stage version of the acclaimed poetry collection by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, imagining the wives’ perspective of famous men through the ages.


Age guidance 14 plus.

Talks

30th June

7:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Jenni Murray Reminisces

Jenni Murray OBE discusses her long career in broadcasting, particularly her 22 years at the helm of Woman’s Hour, the programme’s 64 year history and her most engaging and most terrifying interviewees from Barbara Castle to Kaffe Fasset, Monica Lewinsky to Tom Hanks and Jack Nicholson, Margaret Thatcher through Blair to Gordon Brown.

Dance

1st July

7:30 AM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Youth Dance Showcase

Ludlow Festival 2010 hosts the seventh Youth Dance Showcase, which provides an opportunity for young dancers throughout South Shropshire to display performing and choreographic talent.

Music

4th July

2:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

A Children's Musical Mystery Tour

(For children aged five to 12)

Lucie and Roddy Skeaping introduce young people to the history of music from its primitive beginnings to the medieval and Tudor periods.

Music

4th July

7:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

The City Waites in Concert

Riotous songs, ballads and dance tunes from the tavern, theatre, court and countryside of 17th century England

Lucie Skeaping (voice, fiddle, rebec), Douglas Wootton (voice, lute, cittern, drums), Nicholas Perry (recorders, curtal, pipes, crumhorn) and Roddy Skeaping (hurdygurdy, fiddle, viol, rebec) re-create the entertainment of times past.

Talks

6th July

7:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

An audience with Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg was born in 1939 and educated at Wigton’s Nelson Tomlinson  School and at  Oxford where he read history.

Comedy

10th July

7:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Arthur Smith

A Grumpy Old Man

Arthur Smith has become one of comedy’s elder statesmen – an Edinburgh Fringe stalwart and a club compere since the early days of the alternative scene; he still uses many of the same gags today.